DRACONIAN — Turning Season Within (review)

DRACONIAN — Turning Season Within album cover Album · 2008 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Draconian play a style of doom metal tinged with influences from the likes of Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride - not one, specific moment in those bands' careers, mind, but across a broad span of their careers, so you have a few elements of the death-doom exploration of Paradise Lost/MDB's early years and the more gothic approach of later albums all blended in here. You've got "beauty and the beast" style vocals here, but in an altogether darker and more gloom-laden way than I've ever seen that particular approach used before.

All of that isn't the most original combination of elements - but as is often the case in doom, what's less important is the originality of your ideas and more the flair with which you deploy them. This is a listenable album which kept me entertained a bit more consistently than Arcane Rain Fell, but isn't so much better than that release that I'd say it's really taken Draconian's sound to the next level. A solid but not classic release.
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